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hooleylist
Oct 28, 2009Cirrostratus
It sounds like you have the configuration set up correctly to not do source address translation on LTM. Does it work if a real client tries to connect to the SMTP servers via the VIP?
I'd guess the SMTP server is closing the connection before you have a chance to send any data. You can get around this issue by using netcat from the LTM command line:
echo "my smtp commands" | nc VIP_IP VIP_PORT
Also, clients on the same subnet as the SMTP servers would not work as the SMTP servers would respond back directly to the clients--not to LTM.
Aaron